White Maize & Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Book excerpt: The book is about food security and the contribution white maize makes towards it in sub-Saharan Africa. It provides detailed discussions of the food security concept, its indicators, measurement tools and the complexity involved in measuring it. White maize is used as a reference point for most of the discussions, also conducted in comparison to the traditional cereal grains, namely: millet and sorghum which it replaced in sub-Saharan Africa. At the end of each chapter an exercise in the form of a set of questions is provided for the readers to test their understanding and revise on the content of the chapter.